Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a body of semiconductor material having first trenches and second trenches. Each of the first trenches has vertical sidewalls and each of the second trenches has tapered sidewalls. First transistors are arranged in said semiconductor body and are isolated from each other by the first trenches. Second trenches are arranged in the semiconductor body and are isolated from each other by the second trenches.
Abstract:
A method of forming a capacitor includes, a) providing a substrate; b) etching into the substrate to provide a depression in the substrate, the depression having a sidewall which is angled from vertical; c) providing a conformal layer of hemispherical grain polysilicon within the depression and over the angled sidewall, the layer of hemispherical grain polysilicon less than completely filling the depression; and d) ion implanting the hemispherical grain polysilicon layer with a conductivity enhancing impurity. Preferred methods of providing the depression where the substrate comprises SiO.sub.2 include a dry, plasma enhanced, anisotropic spacer etch utilizing reactant gases of CF.sub.4 and CHF.sub.3 provided to the substrate at a volumetric ratio of 1:1, and facet sputter etching.
Abstract:
A method of forming a capacitor includes, a) providing a substrate; b) etching into the substrate to provide a depression in the substrate, the depression having a sidewall which is angled from vertical; c) providing a conformal layer of hemispherical grain polysilicon within the depression and over the angled sidewall, the layer of hemispherical grain polysilicon less than completely filling the depression; and d) ion implanting the hemispherical grain polysilicon layer with a conductivity enhancing impurity. Preferred methods of providing the depression where the substrate comprises SiO.sub.2 include a dry, plasma enhanced, anisotropic spacer etch utilizing reactant gases of CF.sub.4 and CHF.sub.3 provided to the substrate at a volumetric ratio of 1:1, and facet sputter etching.
Abstract:
An interconnecting method for a semiconductor device is disclosed in which a conductive layer containing aluminum is formed on a lower structure formed on a substrate. An insulating layer is formed on the conductive layer. A photoresist pattern for defining a portion where an opening is to be made is formed on the insulating layer. Then, the insulating layer is isotropically etched by wet etching with the photoresist pattern as an etching mask. The insulating layer remaining after the isotropical etching is taper-etched by RIE to form the opening. To ensure that the conductive layer is exposed by the opening, the resultant structure is overetched by using a mixed gas of fluorocarbon-containing gas and oxygen. This resultant structure is RIE-sputtered using fluorocarbon-containing gas such that polymer or nonvolatile by-products generated when the opening such as a via hole is formed, are completely removed.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device including a substrate having a low substrate surface formed in the substrate with a first gentle slope from the substrate surface; a single crystalline layer formed on the low substrate surface nearly level with the substrate surface and having a gentle slope facing the first gentle slope; an optical semiconductor element is constructed using the single crystalline layer. An electronic semiconductor element is constructed using the substrate surface. A wiring layer connects electrodes of the optical semiconductor element and the electronic semiconductor element through the first and the second gentle slopes.
Abstract:
A self-aligned contact is formed in a multi-layer semiconductor device. In one form, conductive members are formed overlying a substrate material and a first insulating layer is deposited overlying the substrate material and the conductive members. A film of material is deposited on the first insulating layer and the film of material is patterned to form a sacrificial plug in an area where a contact is to be made. A second insulating layer is deposited on the device, and the device is made substantially planar. The second insulating layer is etched back to expose the sacrificial plug. The sacrificial plug is removed by selectively etching the device such that the first and second insulating layers are left substantially unaltered. An anisotropic etch of the device is performed to expose an area of the substrate material on which a contact is to be made, and to simultaneously form sidewall spacers along edges of the conductive members. A conductive layer is deposited onto the device and patterned, thereby forming a self-aligned contact.
Abstract:
A semiconductor wafer on which silicon or the like is epitaxially grown and p-type or n-type impurities are doped and which has at the rear surface except for the peripheral edge portion thereof a blocking film for preventing jumping out of impurities therefrom which causes auto-doping, thereby preventing silicon particles from being produced at the peripheral surface and preventing the semiconductor wafer from being contaminated by the silicon particles during the manufacturing of a semiconductor device.
Abstract:
A transistor adapted to be used in an active-matrix liquid-crystal display, the channel length, of the distance between the source region and the drain region, is made larger than the length of the gate electrode taken in the longitudinal direction of the channel. Offset regions are formed in the channel region on the sides of the source and drain regions. No or very weak electric fields is applied to these offset regions from the gate electrode.
Abstract:
A wiring formed on a substrate is oxidized and the oxide is used as a mask for forming source and drain impurity regions of a transistor, or as a material for insulating wirings from each other, or as a dielectric of a capacitor. The thickness of the oxide is determined depending on the purpose of the oxide. In a transistor adapted to be used in an active-matrix liquid-crystal display, the channel length, the distance between the source region and the drain region, is made larger than the length of the gate electrode taken in the longitudinal direction of the channel. Offset regions are formed in the channel region on the sides of the source and drain regions. No or very weak electric fields are applied to these offset regions from the gate electrode.
Abstract:
A wiring formed on a substrate is oxidized and the oxide is used as a mask for forming source and drain impurity regions of a transistor, or as a material for insulating wirings from each other, or as a dielectric of a capacitor. Thickness of the oxide is determined depending on purpose of the oxide. In a transistor adapted to be used in an active-matrix liquid-crystal display, the channel length, or the distance between the source region and the drain region, is made larger than the length of the gate electrode taken in the longitudinal direction of the channel. Offset regions are formed in the channel region on the sides of the source and drain regions. No or very weak electric field is applied to these offset regions from the gate electrode.